Have you ever noticed when a word or a saying comes to your attention, and then suddenly you're hearing or seeing it everywhere? This is exactly what happened with me over this last week with this week's quote. The more things change the more they stay the same. It's an old-fashioned quote, one often used by the elders in our community. Those who have lived through a long life, and paid attention! It is often used in relation to social issues or politics but I think it can be applied to so many areas of our life. As a historian and avid reader of the classics and historical non-fiction, I can see so many patterns that are repeated - whether that be due to human nature, social movements or simply the tendency that history has to repeat itself. Sometimes these are on a personal level - I myself claim to change but continue to fall into the same habits of the past. Or they can be on a bigger scale - schools and churches make new promises only to ...